I'm one of the people who ar "hooked" on Mid Journey those days, but my digital art goes al the way back to 1995 when PhotoShop 2 was a revolution, but you had to wait all night for a simple picture to render.

Then using PS was looked down on, "it's a fake you're doing; it's just a program, not creative work like we, the "artist." But since then, nobody today thinks that using PS is a "fake," it's just another tool, like a pencil or a brush.

It was similar to when artists started using video and photographs; at first, it was "not art," but it changed quickly (thanks a lot that it didn't take too long like PS), and today every second artist use photograps and video.

Today I'm learning to use MJ in a "creative" way cos from what I see other users do is not art, and they are not trying to create art, just having a lot of fun, and it is fun. A new tool/toy from my point of view. Artists just have to learn to use it in a creative way, not talk it down, saying, "it's not art; it's a face."

AI is nothing but a new "brush," face it and learn to use it, it's not going away so go whit the flow and just be the best or good enough, nothing else counts as everything else that we create; be it art or for fun.

I use the Hashtag #AI (and am not shame of it) and #MidJurneypanton (been seeing others using Mid Jurney pant on and find it a go description cos usually, almost always, those who take AI picture-making seriously always go through PS before publishing the final result) because nothing I make in Mid Jurney I use as Mid Journey do it.

Been making digital art for about 30 years I look at everything as a "sours" that I manipulate and distort in many ways, so the end result is usually totally different from any of the sours.

I'm fascinated about MJ; no tool I've used has ever been able to give me such great sources to make my pictures. I can't tell a camera to take so and so photos; I will have to find the sours, take millions of of photos, and maybe no one is useable. Well, I have to admit it's been the same with MJ; I have been maybe two days working and not able to let MJ understand what I want, but hey, it's a new tool/brush, so of course, I will not get what I'm looking for instantly. But on the other hand, MJ often totally surprises me by coming up whit pictures I wasn't looking for or asking for, and I got sources for a totally different picture; it's just like using photographs you find on your walk along the seashore things and motives that you were not looking for and get some "extra" on your lookout for the sours you started looking for. It's one of the magic of AI that people don't seem to understand; it's a surprise tool cos, in a way, it's "dum," not in a negative way in my case cause I love surprises that give me ideas for nuw works.

So I'm not ashamed to tell people that I used AI in making some pictures; there is no need to; it will change, just like the attitude to PhotoShop 30 years ago. Today no one asks you if you used PS to make or alter a picture, folks just look at the final result, is it good or bad? Do I like it or not? That's the only thing that matters, not what kind of brush ore a program or AI you used.